Trump-backed Ciattarelli tells Hannity early voting surge puts his campaign in 'really good position'
POINT PLEASANT, N.J. - With six days to go until Election Day and one of only two races for governor in the nation this year careening towards a potential tight...
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POINT PLEASANT, N.J. - With six days to go until Election Day and one of only two races for governor in the nation this year careening towards a potential tight finish, New Jersey Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli is highlighting the state's robust early voting numbers. "We’ve seen more Republicans return vote by mail ballots than ever before," Ciattarelli said Thursday during a town hall on Fox News' "Hannity." The town hall, hosted by Fox News' Sean Hannity in this seaside community along the Jersey Shore, took place six days into state's early in-person voting period. Nearly one million voters have already cast a ballot, either in-person or through mail-in voting, far ahead of the pace four years ago when Ciattarelli came close to upsetting Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy. Now, in his third bid for Garden State governor, Ciattarelli is facing off with Democratic gubernatorial nominee Rep. Mikie Sherrill in an extremely competitive and combustible race to succeed the term-limited Murphy. FIVE KEY RACES TO WATCH WITH TWO WEEKS UNTIL ELECTION DAY "The return rate’s been phenomenal. And here through the first five or six days of early voting , which goes through Sunday, we’ve been matching them voter for voter. That puts us in a really good position to win," Ciattarelli said. HEAD HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS REPORTING AND ANALYSIS ON THE 2025 ELECTIONS But Sherrill, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who flew helicopters during her military career and briefly served as a federal prosecutor before first winning election to Congress in 2018, is also touting the early voting numbers, calling them "really great news." "We’re seeing such great results in the vote by mails and the early voting," she told Fox News Digital on Wednesday after a meet and greet at a senior center in Elizabeth, New Jersey. "Certainly the trend is much better than ’21." Ciattarelli, a one-time certified public accountant who started a medical publishing company before getting into politics and winning…